...es south of Hays.
This too being a particularly dangerous route-several couriers having been killed on it — it was impossible to get one of the various Petes, Jacks, or Jims hanging around Hays City to take my communication.
Cody learning of the strait I was in, manfully came to the rescue, and proposed to make the trip to Dodge, though he had just finished his long and perilous ride from Lame...